Toy vehicle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`MARTIN SCHAARE, OF BOILING SPRINGS, NEW JERSEY.

TOY VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 522,741, dated July 10, 1894.

` Application ined November 7,1893.' serai No. 490.237- (No modem Y To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN SCHAARE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the town of Boiling Springs, in the county of -Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Vehicles, of which thefollowing is aspecification.

This lnvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in toy vehicles, especially such toy vehicles as locomotives, cars, wagons, carts, rbc.

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction of toy vehicles and thereby reduce the expense of production and at the same time to produce an article that is strong and durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tin toy car, made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the bottom part of one side of the body blank. Fig. 3 is a plan View of part of the car platform. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the car platform and Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical transverse sectional view of the car platform and bottom part of the body.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The car body blank A is made of a piece of sheet metal or cast metal, parts ofv which are punched or cored out to represent the car windows and said sheet or cast metal blank is bent or cast U -shaped to form said car body. The sides of the car-body are provided with flanges A, which are cast or bent over` toward each other, as shown in Fig. 1.

From the bottom edge of each side of the car-body blank A a lug B projects downward which has an aperture C for the car axle, said lugs being made integral with the body blank and taking the place of the pedestals, usually formed on or attached to the platform.

The car platform D is provided along each side edge with the downwardly projecting flange E and at the top of said flange a groove F is stamped or otherwise formed in the top of the platform blank, parallel with said ange and the platform blank is further provided with the two transverse grooves G,which are separated from each other a distance equal to the length of the car body A, so that when the car-body is placed on the platform blank,

the bottom `edges of the end flanges A of the car body rest in said transverse grooves G. The said grooves F are provided with longitudinal slots J, through which the lugs B on the bottom edges ofthe car body can project. After the lugs B on "the car body have been passed through the slots J, the axles K are passed through the aperture O in said lugs and the wheels M are .fastened on the ends of said axles.

The lugs B are made of such length and their apertures C are so located, that when the axle K is passed throughv the aperture C of the lugs B, after said lugs have been passed through the slots J of the platform blank, the said axles rest against the bottom edges of the flanges E, as shown in Fig. 5.

The wheels prevent the withdrawing of the axles and the axles prevent lifting the body blank olf the platform blank and thus serve to firmly unite the parts, as the bottom edges of the sides of the body blank are in the grooves F and the bottom edges of the anges scribed.

If desired, the bottom edges of the lianges E can have fancy contours, as shown in Fig. 4. It is evident that other vehicles can be constructed in the manner described as well as cars, the difference being not of construction, but of size.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Atoy vehicle, composed of a slotted platform, a body having apertured lugs passed through the slots in the platform, axles passed through the apertures of the lugs below the platform and wheels attached to the ends of the axles, substantially as set forth.

' 2. In a toy vehicle the combination with a platform having side flanges and longitudinal slots at said side flanges, of a body blank having apertured lugs, which are passed through said slots in the platform, axles passed through the apertures of said lugs and Wheels secured on the ends of said axles, substantially as set forth.

3. In a toy vehicle the combination with a platform blank provided with side flanges, grooves adjacent to and parallel with said anges and slots in the bottoms of the grooves, of a body blank having lugs projecting from its sides, which lugs are passed through the slots of the platform blank, the bottom edges of the body blank resting in the longitudinal grooves of the platform blank, axles passed through apertures in the lugs of the body blank and Wheels attached to the ends of the axle, substantially as set forth.

4. In a toy vehicle, the combination with a platform blank having slots and transverse MARTIN SCHAARE.

Witnesses:

WM. C. YOUNG, E. F. MILLER. 

